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1318 Autumn Tale 1998 Rohmer, Eric France V
1325 Cabiria 1914 Pastrone, Giovanni Italy D
1328 Damnation 1988 Tarr, Béla Hungary D
1331 Mädchen in Uniform 1931 Sagan, Leontine Germany Y
1331 Man Bites Dog 1992 Belvaux, Rémy / Bonzel, André / Poelvoorde, Benoît Belgium Y
1333 A Tale of Winter 1992 Rohmer, Eric France V
1337 A Time for Drunken Horses 2000 Ghobadi, Bahman Iran Y
1338 Stray Dog 1949 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
1340 Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir 1970 Renoir, Jean Italy / France Y
1345 The Golem 1920 Wegener, Paul / Boese, Carl Germany D
1348 Cyclo 1995 Tran, Anh Hung Vietnam / France Y
1354 Summer 1986 Rohmer, Eric France D
1360 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 1970 Petri, Elio / Kresel, Lee Italy S
1364 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Melville, Jean-Pierre France / Italy D
1367 Ponette 1996 Doillon, Jacques France Y
1369 The Silence 1963 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
1371 Lust, Caution 2007 Lee, Ang USA / China DU
1373 Le Trou 1960 Becker, Jacques France / Italy D
1373 Love 1971 Makk, Károly Hungary Y
1377 The New Land 1972 Troell, Jan Sweden Y
1380 The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Epstein, Jean France / USA YU
1381 The Son 2002 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc Belgium / France D
1383 Apocalypto 2006 Gibson, Mel USA DB
1384 French Cancan 1954 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
1388 Queen Margot 1994 Chéreau, Patrice France / Italy / Germany Y
1392 Like Water for Chocolate 1992 Arau, Alfonso Mexico Y
1394 Paradise Now 2005 Abu-Assad, Hany France / Germany / Netherlands / Israel D
1396 A Taxing Woman 1987 Itami, Juzo Japan Y
1398 Burnt by the Sun 1994 Mikhalkov, Nikita France / Russia Y
1399 La Bête humaine 1938 Renoir, Jean France D
1402 La Promesse 1996 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc Belgium / France / Luxembourg D
1405 The Emigrants 1971 Troell, Jan Sweden Y
1410 Mamma Roma 1962 Pasolini, Pier Paolo Italy Y
1412 Chushingura 1962 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1412 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 1975 Schlöndorff, Volker / von Trotta, Margarethe West Germany D
1416 The Merchant of Four Seasons 1972 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
1417 Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998 Medem, Julio Spain / France D
1420 Vengeance Is Mine 1979 Imamura, Shohei Japan D
1421 Funny Games 1997 Haneke, Michael Austria D
1422 Love on the Run 1979 Truffaut, François France D
1423 Under the Roofs of Paris 1930 Clair, René France Y
1425 Dream of Light 1992 Erice, Víctor Spain Y
1426 The Mirror 1975 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
1426 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Tarr, Béla / Hranitzky, Ágnes Hungary / Italy / Germany / France D
1428 La Nuit de Varennes 1982 Scola, Ettore France / Italy Y
1429 Fox and His Friends 1975 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany D
1430 Teorema 1968 Pasolini, Pier Paolo Italy DS
1434 Ceddo 1977 Sembene, Ousmane Senegal
1434 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Vlácil, Frantisek Czechoslovakia
1436 Knife in the Head 1978 Hauff, Reinhard West Germany Y
1439 The Life of Oharu 1952 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
1440 Heimat 1984 Reitz, Edgar West Germany Y
1442 Onibaba 1964 Shindô, Kaneto Japan D
1444 César 1936 Pagnol, Marcel France D
1444 Fanny 1932 Allégret, Marc France D
1445 Mother and Son 1997 Sokurov, Aleksandr Germany / Russia V
1451 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Schrader, Paul USA D
1456 Audition 1999 Miike, Takashi South Korea / Japan D
1456 Torment 1944 Sjöberg, Alf Sweden D
1458 Distant Thunder 1973 Ray, Satyajit India
1459 Fists in the Pocket 1965 Bellocchio, Marco Italy S
1461 In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
1462 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 2005 Puiu, Cristi Romania D
1463 Stavisky... 1974 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
1466 A City of Sadness 1989 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Taiwan
1467 Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 Becker, Jacques France / Italy YU
1468 Born Into Brothels 2004 Briski, Zana / Kauffman, Ross India / USA D
1469 Marius 1931 Korda, Alexander / Pagnol, Marcel France D
1470 Three Brothers 1981 Rosi, Francesco France / Italy Y
1471 Ginger and Fred 1986 Fellini, Federico Italy / France / West Germany D
1474 Caro diario 1994 Moretti, Nanni Italy / France S
1479 Prisoner of the Mountains 1996 Bodrov, Sergei Russia / Kazakhstan Y
1482 The Memory of Justice 1976 Ophüls, Marcel UK / USA / France / West Germany
1483 The Story of a Cheat 1936 Guitry, Sacha France
1487 Late Chrysanthemums 1954 Naruse, Mikio Japan V
1487 Nada 1974 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
1489 Black Sunday 1960 Bava, Mario Italy DUPS
1490 La Chinoise 1967 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
1493 Marriage Italian Style 1964 De Sica, Vittorio Italy / France Y
1496 Platform 2000 Jia, Zhang Ke Hong Kong / China / Japan / France D
1500 A Married Woman 1964 Godard, Jean-Luc France
1500 Muriel 1963 Resnais, Alain France / Italy D
1503 Girl on the Bridge 1999 Leconte, Patrice France D
1503 Häxan 1922 Christensen, Benjamin Denmark / Sweden D
1504 Sawdust and Tinsel 1953 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
1505 Tokyo orimpikku 1965 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
1506 Faust 1926 Murnau, F.W. Germany Y
1507 An Italian Straw Hat 1927 Clair, René France Y
1509 Trafic 1971 Tati, Jacques France / Italy D
1510 Gabbeh 1996 Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Iran / France D
1510 Loulou 1980 Pialat, Maurice France D
1511 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 Carax, Leos France Y
1514 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Demy, Jacques / Varda, Agnès France YS
1515 Together 2000 Moodysson, Lukas Sweden / Denmark / Italy D
1516 The Day I Became a Woman 2000 Meshkini, Marzieh Iran
1518 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Kiarostami, Abbas France / Iran
1519 The Childhood of Maxim Gorky 1938 Donskoy, Mark Soviet Union DU
1523 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 Rosi, Francesco Italy Y
1524 The Sacrifice 1986 Tarkovsky, Andrei Sweden / UK / France Y
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1526 Circle of Deceit 1981 Schlöndorff, Volker France / West Germany D
1527 Otello 1986 Zeffirelli, Franco Italy / Netherlands Y
1529 The Pedestrian 1973 Schell, Maximilian Switzerland / West Germany / Israel
1535 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 Ruttmann, Walter Germany Y
1539 The Return of Martin Guerre 1982 Vigne, Daniel France Y
1540 Ridicule 1996 Leconte, Patrice France Y
1541 The Best of Youth 2003 Giordana, Marco Tullio Italy D
1544 The Stranger 1967 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France / Algeria
1545 Joyeux Noël 2005 Carion, Christian France / Germany / UK / Belgium / Romania DU
1546 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Argento, Dario Italy / West Germany DS
1546 Il Posto 1961 Olmi, Ermanno Italy D
1546 Once Upon a Time in China 1991 Tsui, Hark Hong Kong D
1546 Ring 1998 Nakata, Hideo Japan D
1548 A Very Long Engagement 2004 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / USA YU
1549 Girl with a Suitcase 1961 Zurlini, Valerio Italy / France YS
1549 The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick 1972 Wenders, Wim West Germany / Austria
1549 The Judge and the Assassin 1976 Tavernier, Bertrand France
1549 The Third Generation 1979 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany D
1549 The Well-Digger's Daughter 1940 Pagnol, Marcel France
1558 Cabaret Balkan 1998 Paskaljevic, Goran Fed Rep of Yugoslavia / Rep of Macedonia / France / Greece / Turkey Y
1559 Anna Christie 1931 Feyder, Jacques USA / Germany D
1567 Princess Yang Kwei Fei 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan / Hong Kong Y
1571 Shall We Dance? 1996 Suo, Masayuki Japan Y
1572 Every Man for Himself 1980 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Austria / West Germany / Switzerland
1573 The Chorus 2004 Barratier, Christophe France / Switzerland / Germany Y
1574 La Femme Nikita 1990 Besson, Luc France / Italy Y
1575 Toni 1935 Renoir, Jean France
1576 Un Carnet de Bal 1937 Duvivier, Julien France
1578 Calle 54 2000 Trueba, Fernando Spain / France / Italy Y
1578 My Twentieth Century 1989 Enyedi, Ildikó Hungary / West Germany / Cuba Y
1579 Kadosh 1999 Gitai, Amos Israel / France Y
1579 Nostalghia 1983 Tarkovsky, Andrei Italy / France / Soviet Union Y
1580 Beauty and the Devil 1950 Clair, René France / Italy Y
1583 Destiny 1921 Lang, Fritz Germany YU
1585 Repentance 1987 Abuladze, Tengiz Soviet Union Y
1586 Live Flesh 1997 Almodóvar, Pedro France / Spain DS
1586 Lumumba 2000 Peck, Raoul France / Belgium / Germany / Haiti DS
1588 Songs from the Second Floor 2000 Andersson, Roy Sweden / Norway / Denmark Y
1589 Gervaise 1956 Clément, René France / Italy Y
1590 Keeper of Promises 1962 Duarte, Anselmo Brazil / Portugal
1593 A Year of the Quiet Sun 1984 Zanussi, Krzysztof Poland / West Germany / USA Y
1595 C.R.A.Z.Y. 2005 Vallée, Jean-Marc Canada D
1596 La Vie en Rose 2007 Dahan, Olivier France / UK / Czech Republic DU
1597 Caché 2005 Haneke, Michael France / Austria / Germany / Italy DU
1599 Mouchette 1967 Bresson, Robert France D
1601 Arsenal 1928 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union / Ukraine Y
1601 The Fantastic Planet 1973 Laloux, René Czechoslovakia / France D
1602 Brothers 2004 Bier, Susanne Denmark D
1603 The Silent World 1956 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves / Malle, Louis Italy / France
1608 The Invitation 1973 Goretta, Claude Switzerland / France Y
1610 The Passion of the Christ 2004 Gibson, Mel USA DS
1615 Osama 2003 Barmak, Siddiq Afghanistan / Netherlands / Japan Y
1621 Kanal 1957 Wajda, Andrzej Poland Y
1623 Band of Outsiders 1964 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
1624 L'Enfant 2005 Dardenne, Jean-Pierre / Dardenne, Luc Belgium / France DU
1626 La Jetée 1962 Marker, Chris France D
1632 Black and White in Color 1976 Annaud, Jean-Jacques Ivory Coast / France / West Germany / Switzerland Y
1634 I Was Born, But... 1932 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
1636 Purple Noon 1960 Clément, René France / Italy YS
1640 The Man Who Loved Women 1977 Truffaut, François France Y
1641 Fireworks 1997 Kitano, Takeshi Japan Y
1645 Ådalen '31 1969 Widerberg, Bo Sweden
1646 An Actor's Revenge 1963 Ichikawa, Kon Japan Y
1646 The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Taiwan
1649 The Threepenny Opera 1931 Pabst, Georg Wilhelm Germany D
1651 Death by Hanging 1968 Oshima, Nagisa Japan
1652 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Malle, Louis France DS
1658 Bread and Chocolate 1973 Brusati, Franco Italy Y
1664 The Eternal Mask 1935 Hochbaum, Werner Austria / Switzerland
1666 Bread, Love, and Dreams 1953 Comencini, Luigi Italy Y
1667 Chunhyang 2000 Kwon-taek, Im South Korea Y
1669 Indochine 1992 Wargnier, Régis France Y
1672 Days of Being Wild 1991 Wong, Kar Wai Hong Kong Y
1672 The Great Adventure 1953 Sucksdorff, Arne Sweden
1672 I'm Going Home 2001 de Oliveira, Manoel France / Portugal Y
1675 Alice in the Cities 1974 Wenders, Wim West Germany
1677 The Man on the Train 2002 Leconte, Patrice France / Germany / UK / Switzerland YU
1680 Mélo 1986 Resnais, Alain France D
1684 Behind the Sun 2001 Salles, Walter Brazil / France / Switzerland Y
1685 Sophie Scholl - The Final Days 2005 Rothemund, Marc Germany D
1686 My Father's Glory 1990 Robert, Yves France Y
1688 India Song 1975 Duras, Marguerite France
1688 Stalker 1979 Tarkovsky, Andrei West Germany / Soviet Union Y
1694 Chocolat 1988 Denis, Claire France / West Germany / Cameroon Y
1694 Meghe Dhaka Tara 1960 Ghatak, Ritwik India
1696 Days and Nights in the Forest 1970 Ray, Satyajit India
1699 Hanussen 1988 Szabó, István Hungary / West Germany / Austria Y
1701 Padre Padrone 1977 Taviani, Paolo / Taviani, Vittorio Italy Y
1701 Tous les matins du monde 1991 Corneau, Alain France DS
1703 Méditerranée 1963 Pollet, Jean-Daniel / Schlöndorff, Volker France
1703 Spring in a Small Town 1948 Fei, Mu China D
1703 A Tale of the Wind 1989 Ivens, Joris / Ivens, Marceline Loridan France / UK / West Germany / Netherlands
1704 Utamaro and His Five Women 1946 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
1705 Zazie dans le métro 1960 Malle, Louis France / Italy
1706 Voyage in Italy 1953 Rossellini, Roberto Italy / France Y
1710 Before the Revolution 1964 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy YS
1710 Centre Stage 1992 Kwan, Stanley Hong Kong Y
1710 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Rouch, Jean / Morin, Edgar France
1710 La Souriante Madame Beudet 1922 Dulac, Germaine France
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1710 Land Without Bread 1933 Buñuel, Luis Spain Y
1710 Les Maîtres fous 1955 Rouch, Jean France
1710 Red Psalm 1972 Jancsó, Miklós Hungary
1710 Too Early, Too Late 1982 Huillet, Danièle / Straub, Jean-Marie France
1710 The Young One 1960 Buñuel, Luis Mexico / USA D
1712 And Now My Love 1974 Lelouch, Claude France / Italy Y
1715 Early Summer 1951 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
1717 Shanghai Triad 1995 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China / France D
1717 Toto the Hero 1991 van Dormael, Jaco France / Belgium / Germany Y
1720 Zatôichi 2003 Kitano, Takeshi Japan D
1726 The Hairdresser's Husband 1990 Leconte, Patrice France Y
1728 Baran 2001 Majidi, Majid Iran D
1728 Faithless 2000 Ullmann, Liv Sweden / Italy / Germany / Finland / Norway D
1730 Fellini's Roma 1972 Fellini, Federico Italy / France YS
1735 The Color of Paradise 1999 Majidi, Majid Iran D
1736 Beau-père 1981 Blier, Bertrand France
1737 Blood of a Poet 1930 Cocteau, Jean France YS
1738 Character 1997 van Diem, Mike Netherlands / Belgium Y
1739 The Children of Heaven 1997 Majidi, Majid Iran Y
1743 Kôhî jikô 2003 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Japan / Taiwan
1744 The Best Intentions 1992 August, Bille Sweden / Germany / UK / Italy / France / Denmark / Finland / Norway / Iceland Y
1744 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 Chow, Stephen China / Hong Kong DBU
1752 I Am Cuba 1964 Kalatozishvili, Mikheil Soviet Union / Cuba Y
1755 Amore 1948 Rossellini, Roberto Italy Y
1756 Simón del desierto 1965 Buñuel, Luis Mexico Y
1757 The Hunt 1966 Saura, Carlos Spain Y
1757 Read My Lips 2001 Audiard, Jacques France D
1757 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg 1927 Lubitsch, Ernst / Stahl, John M. USA
1758 Chikamatsu monogatari 1954 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
1758 The 47 Ronin 1941 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
1758 Quai des Orfèvres 1947 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France Y
1760 To Be and To Have 2002 Philibert, Nicolas France D
1762 Tropical Malady 2004 Weerasethakul, Apichatpong Thailand / France / Germany / Italy D
1764 Vidas Secas 1963 dos Santos, Nelson Pereira Brazil D
1766 World Without Sun 1964 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves France / Italy / USA
1768 Close to Eden 1991 Mikhalkov, Nikita France / Soviet Union Y
1770 The Legend of Drunken Master 1994 Liu, Chia-Liang / Chan, Jackie Hong Kong Y
1771 Deserter 1933 Pudovkin, Vsevolod Soviet Union Y
1773 Milou in May 1990 Malle, Louis France / Italy
1775 Körkarlen 1921 Sjöström, Victor Sweden
1775 Mondo cane 1962 Jacopetti, Gualtiero / Cavara, Paolo / Prosperi, Franco Italy D
1780 Black Book 2006 Verhoeven, Paul Netherlands / UK / Germany DBU
1782 Harvest 1937 Pagnol, Marcel France
1782 The Overcoat 1959 Batalov, Aleksei Soviet Union
1784 Ariel 1988 Kaurismäki, Aki Finland Y
1784 Four Nights of a Dreamer 1971 Bresson, Robert France
1786 Rendezvous in Paris 1995 Rohmer, Eric France V
1790 Man's Hope 1945 Malraux, André / Peskine, Boris Spain / France
1790 Numéro deux 1975 Godard, Jean-Luc France Y
1790 Poil de Carotte 1932 Duvivier, Julien France Y
1793 Mother India 1957 Khan, Mehboob India Y
1797 Carnival in Flanders 1935 Feyder, Jacques France / Germany Y
1799 Tevye 1939 Schwartz, Maurice USA Y
1800 Madame Rosa 1977 Mizrahi, Moshé France Y
1804 Marianne and Juliane 1981 von Trotta, Margarethe West Germany V
1804 Ten 2002 Kiarostami, Abbas France / Iran / USA Y
1807 Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others 1974 Sautet, Claude France / Italy
1809 Colonel Redl 1985 Szabó, István Hungary / Austria / West Germany Y
1809 Hamlet 1964 Kozintsev, Grigori / Shapiro, Iosif Soviet Union D
1809 Offside 2006 Panahi, Jafar Iran DU
1809 Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1812 Elvira Madigan 1967 Widerberg, Bo Sweden Y
1813 Hands Over the City 1963 Rosi, Francesco Italy / France D
1814 Sanjuro 1962 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
1817 Carmen 1983 Saura, Carlos Spain D
1820 Le Plaisir 1952 Ophüls, Max France D
1820 The Tenant 1976 Polanski, Roman France / USA Y
1821 Under the Sand 2000 Ozon, François France D
1826 Street of Shame 1956 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan V
1827 La Symphonie Pastorale 1946 Delannoy, Jean France Y
1828 Cartouche 1962 de Broca, Philippe France / Italy D
1828 Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 1976 Tanner, Alain France / Switzerland V
1828 La Marseillaise 1938 Renoir, Jean France D
1828 Le Corbeau 1943 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
1828 Viva María! 1965 Malle, Louis France / Italy D
1828 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 Scola, Ettore Italy D
1832 Betty Blue 1986 Beineix, Jean-Jacques France Y
1834 Journey of Hope 1990 Koller, Xavier Switzerland / Turkey / UK Y
1835 Oblomov 1979 Mikhalkov, Nikita Soviet Union Y
1837 The Four Days of Naples 1962 Loy, Nanni Italy
1838 Man Facing Southeast 1986 Subiela, Eliseo Argentina
1839 The Murderers Are Among Us 1946 Staudte, Wolfgang Germany D
1839 Variety 1925 Dupont, Ewald André Germany
1843 A Love in Germany 1983 Wajda, Andrzej West Germany / France Y
1843 Menage 1986 Blier, Bertrand France Y
1845 Stromboli 1950 Rossellini, Roberto Italy Y
1848 The Clowns 1971 Fellini, Federico Italy / France / West Germany YS
1848 The Last Bridge 1954 Käutner, Helmut Yugoslavia / Austria
1848 The Mystery of Picasso 1956 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
1849 Fat Girl 2001 Breillat, Catherine France / Italy D
1850 Pretty Village Pretty Flame 1996 Dragojevic, Srdjan Fed Rep of Yugoslavia D
1854 All Things Fair 1995 Widerberg, Bo Denmark / Sweden Y
1854 Confidence 1980 Szabó, István Hungary
1854 Coup de Torchon 1982 Tavernier, Bertrand France Y
1854 Divided We Fall 2000 Hrebejk, Jan Czech Republic Y
1854 Pathfinder 1987 Gaup, Nils Norway Y
1855 Germinal 1993 Berri, Claude Belgium / France / Italy
1856 Boat People 1982 Hui, Ann Hong Kong
1856 The Contract 1980 Zanussi, Krzysztof Poland